JOURNAL
OF APPROXIMA~rlON
THEORY
50.
160- 166 ( 1987 )
On the Cl-Norm Interpolation BERND
of the Hermite Operator
STEINHAUS
Department qf Mathemaiics, University of Duisburg, 4100 Duisburg, West Germany Communicated by Oved Shish0 Received July 24, 1984: revised March 19, 1985 DEDICATED
TO THE MEMORY OF C&ZA FREUD
1. INTRODUCTION
Consider the interval Z= [ - 1, I] and the space C’(Z) consisting of the continuously differentiable real-valued functions on I provided with the Cl-norm
(1)
llfll, :=max{Il.fll~ llf’ll1~
where /I. 11denotes the Chebyshev norm on 1 and f’ is the first derivative of f~ C’(Z). We use the Chebyshev nodes of the first kind 2i+ 1 xi := cos JJi := cos 2n n,
O
(2)
to construct a Hermite interpolation operator H,: C’(Z)+L’~,+,.
(3)
Pottinger examined the operator norm of H, induced by (1):
IlH,lI~ :=max{ SUP IIKf’ll~ SUP IIWJ)‘ll } c;g’Pl Krcr =: max{ IIH,ll,*~IIHAI: 1. He proved
itm, 32~-4 c419 IIff,//,=~(~)(n+~) IIH,II,* d 5,
C%61.
In the present paper we give the exact rate of growth of 1)H,lI , ; namely, we prove the 160 0021-9045/87 $3.00 Copyright 0 1987 by Academic Press, Inc. All rights of reproduction in any form reserved.
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Cl-NORM OF HERMITEINTERPOLATION
THEOREM. For the Cl-norm of the Hermite interpolation operator H, based on the zeros of the Chebyshev polynomials of the first kind, the following inequality holds:
l)+fln(n+
d IIH,lll d4(n+
4(n+ I)-5+-&
l)+ 13.
2. SOMEESTIMATES The Hermite interpolation operator (3) is given by Hnf(x)=
i
~;(X)lf(X)f(Xi)+
f
(~X-Xz)C(X)f’(Xi)
i=o
i=O
with Ui(X) = 1 - =(x-xi),
Odidn,
I
and
liCX)= (x -x;) w’(x,)’
OliGn,
where o(x) := n;=,(x - xi) denotes the nodal polynomial. Let us first mention a result of FejCr [Z]: LEMMA 1. For the functions given by (4), we have
i;. u,(x)= (n + 1)‘. From now on we use only the special nodes (2) for which ui(x)= 1 --A I,(X) =s
I
(x-x,,=*>
‘sin yicos(n+ cos y-cos
1 -xxI 1) y yi ’
0 6 i 6 n, where x = cos y, y E [0, n]. Using Lemma 1, we have
(4)
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COROLLARY 1.
For the Chebyshev nodes of’ the ,first kind, MY huve (6) (7)
Prooj: Formula (6) follows immediately from (5) and Lemma 1 for x = - 1. To prove (7), we take I = q(x) = H,,Q(x) and find
Using (6), we get the desired result. LEMMA 2. C(I) below:
The following
estimates hold for the functions
A,(x) := i sin’~~j I=0 llA,ll <(n+
l)+
) ‘sin 2 -ln(n+ 71
B,,(x) := i 7co’ ” (x -xi) ,=. sin I’, 2 )IB,lI <--ln(n+ n
1
y,l;(x) l)+
A,,, B,, C, E
,
1 ;
(8)
If(x) ,
I)+ 1;
(9)
sin(n + 1) y 1 - cos y cos yi cos(n + 1) y , cH(x) ‘= ,co (n + 1) sin y cos y - cos y, llC,j/ d (n + 1) + 2 i ln(n + 1) + 11. Proof:
As A,(x,)=
1, O
(10)
let xfx,.
Case 1. If sin y < (n + 1) ‘j2, then A,(x) ,< (n + 1)“2 i /l,(x)/ d (n + 1)‘12 aln(n+ I=0
l)+
1
Concerning the estimate of the Lebesgue constant, see Rivlin [7].
Cl-NORM
Case 2.
OF HERMITE
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INTERPOLATION
For sin y > (n + 1) P”2, we get (x # x,) n Isin(n+l)yl ,c sin y 1-O
An(x) =A 6-
cos(n + 1) y cos y-cos yi
sin2 yi
Isin(n + 1) yl (sin yi [sin y, - sin yI l i sin y n+ 1 j=o + sin yi sin y)
< f
sin y, - sin y
sin yi
cos y-cos y,
i=O
< f
cos(n + 1) y cos y - cos y,
(sin y, + sin y)
i=O
+ i
I/i(X)1
i=O
‘ln y’-‘ln ’ + f Il,(x)l cos y - cos y; i=o
y + cos yil f i =;co Icos
I~,(-~)1
< (n + 1) + 2 ln(n + l)+l i 7t
I
r=O
AS (n + 1) lsin yil 3 (n + 1) sin y, 3 (n + 1)(2/n) y. = 1, we obtain (9): 1 i ll,(x)l
B’(x)6
l)+
1.
To prove (lo), we substitute l-cos
ycos y,=sin2
y+cos2y-cos
ycos yi-sin
ysin yi
+ sin y sin yI = sin y(sin y-sin
yi) + cos y(cos y - cos yi)
+ sin y sin yi. By the triangle inequality C,(x)<
i
I/,(x)1
+ i i=O
< i i=O
+
i i=o
i=O
Ismn+
l)
yI
lcos
y cos(n+ 1) yl
(n+l)siny
Isin(n + 1) y cos(n + 1) yl 1sin y-sin cos y-cos n+l
[l;(x)1 + i 1 +Jn+l ,=o
n cot y r=o xl
.
yj y;
164 Combining
BERND STEINHAUS
this with the inequality
(cf. Ehlich and Zeller [ 1] ) yields the desired result.
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3. PROOF OF THE THEOREM
We first prove the lower estimate. To this end, we take a sufficiently small E> 0 and a function f;: E C’(I) with the properties ,fi:(x,) = -x,
Odidn;
- ic,
.I”:(-~,) = 13
O
IlLIll = 1. Then
=
i (-x,-k) i=O
+il
[{
2px,
i
1=0
2+
&IT+
x,
(n+
sin2 yi (n+ 1)2(1 -x,)~ II
=~++&}~o&+&.s& +2
k (1+x,),=O
l (12+1)2o
n 1+x, 1 -xi
=~&~+{2+&}~o(l-&) 3
-(n
l-x 1-i 1 ;=o(l -xJ2 i
--L +2(n+1)+(n+*)2i=0
i
l
;=Ji-Fg (l-&)1.
I ,
1)2(1 3 -xi)*
I
165 Let E+ O+. By Corollary 1 ll4{2+~}
Un+1Hn+W
-&
i
(n+l)‘-;(n+l)‘;(n+l)‘}
l)+ j-&y
+2(n+
un+
1)-2(n+
4
2 n+l
=4(n+l)-5+-.
To prove the upper estimate, we use Pottinger’s relation [S, 61 (H,f)‘(x)
= i
{u;(x) If(x) + 211,(x) f,(x) f:(x)} j-‘fr(s) 1
i=O
+ f
ds
{f?(x) + 2(x - x;) f,(x) f:(x)} f’(xJ.
i=O
Let f~ C’(Z) satisfy (/f 11,= 1, so that 11 f'II < 1. By Lemma 2,
I(Hrzf )‘(x)l 6 i
I {4(x) 8x1 + 2u,(x) I;
uxw-
x,)1
i=O
+ ice Iax) + 2(x - x,1 l,(x) Mx)l n =
i=.
Z&$
C(x)-2[?(x)
CxAxi) I
Zi
+2
sin(n + 1) y 1 - cos y cos yi cos(n + 1) y (n+l)siny cosy-cosy, -f?(x)
+i i=O
+2
sin y, sin(n + 1) y C(x) sin y
< 2A”(X) + B,(x) + 2C,(x) + 3 5 f?(x) ,=O
<4(n+1)+7
qln(n+l)+l { IT
I
+6,
since Cyzo If(x) d 2. The proof is complete since IIZZ,ll$ d 5 (Pottinger
C%61). I
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